2023 Most Focused Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Idaho

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Idaho” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Natural Resource Management is the 178th most popular major in the country with 2,933 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, natural resource management graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,190 and had an average of $25,062 in loans still to pay off.

Across Idaho, there were 37 natural resource management graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,506 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Idaho” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in natural resource management. That schools that top this list have a program in natural resource management in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Idaho” list to help you make the college decision.

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Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Idaho

The colleges and universities below are the best for idaho resource management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Colleges for Natural Resource Management in Idaho

1

University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

#3 overall quality in Idaho

$38,989 Average Early-Career Earnings

$23,801 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Idaho that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Idaho landed the #1 spot on the list. U of I is a fairly large school located in Moscow, Idaho that handed out 35 ’s resource management degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full U of I Natural Resource Management Report

2

College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, Idaho

#10 overall quality in Idaho

$38,411 Average Early-Career Earnings

$13,011 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Southern Idaho. The school came in at #2 for the Schools Highly Focused on Resource Management Major in Idaho. Twin Falls, Idaho is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s resource management degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Natural Resource Management at College of Southern Idaho

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Brian M. Powell.